Publications by authors named "L Capek"
Aims: Understanding heart failure (HF) characteristics is essential to improve patient outcomes. Categorizing HF beyond left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is challenging due to heterogeneous clinical presentation and aetiologies. Despite global studies on HF, the role of LVEF on mortality remains controversial.
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- After cardiac transplantation, monitoring for acute cellular rejection (ACR) typically involves endomyocardial biopsy (EMB), but there's interest in finding non-invasive alternatives.
- This systematic review and meta-analysis assessed the effectiveness of speckle-tracking echocardiography in detecting ACR, analyzing data from over 2000 biopsies across 18 studies.
- Findings indicate that both left and right ventricular global longitudinal strain are significantly lower in patients without ACR, suggesting that this echocardiography method could be a useful tool for early rejection detection and potentially reduce the need for routine EMB.
Purpose: The Core Outcome Measures Index (COMI) is a short, multidimensional instrument translated into several languages that covers five domains recommended in the assessment of outcome in patients with low-back and neck pain. The purpose of this study was to cross-culturally adapt the COMI from English to Czech language and to test the face and construct validity and reproducibility of its results in patients with low-back and neck pain.
Methods: Participants (n = 125) were included from primary and secondary care.
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- The use of 3D intraoperative models in surgeries involving foreign bodies in the head and neck helps surgeons assess and verify the size, shape, and quantity of these bodies for effective removal and wound revision.
- The case study highlights a 34-year-old woman who had multiple foreign bodies, specifically dental enamel, lodged in her neck tissues following an injury, illustrating the complexity of such surgical scenarios.
- 3D printed models of the foreign bodies were utilized during the surgery, allowing surgeons to compare them directly with the actual foreign bodies removed, ensuring greater surgical accuracy and reducing the risk of complications.
Background: 3D printing is one of the fastest-growing technologies in medicine, but it is essential to have a system for 3D printing documentation that is accessible for not only clinical engineers and surgeons, but also quality managers and data-privacy officers in hospitals. Dedicated software such as product lifecycle management (PLM) software could enable comprehensive management and traceability of all data relevant to 3D printing tasks in a hospital and would highly beneficial. Therefore, customizable software called 3Diamond was developed for 3D printing in medicine.
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